i84 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



The juvenile lesser coverts are dull mottled rufous and black, the median ones 

 with white tips. These median coverts are chiefly a mottled rufous with two con- 

 spicuous, lateral, sub-terminal black ocelli, which become a bar on the inner secondaries. 



The forerunners of the white, greater covert bar are mottled grey, buff and dark 

 brown, whitening toward the tip. The secondaries are black, with deep triangular teeth 

 or broken barring of mottled rufous on the outer web. The primaries are heavily 

 barred on the outer web with buffy rufous. 



The juvenile mid-back feathers are mottled chestnut with an irregular, black, 

 central shaft-spot. On the rump the feathers are a coarsely mottled grey, and the black 

 area has enlarged. 



On the ventral surface, the pectoral steel blue extends far down on the sides and 

 lower breast, dying out as central ocelli, like those which are so characteristic of the 

 anterior steel-blue neck plumage. The mid-line of the belly is much mottled with 

 black. 



There is little or no chestnut on the rectrices. Beak from nostril, i6; wing, 210; 

 tail (full-grown juvenile), 223 ; tarsus, 63 ; middle toe and claw, 50 ; spur, 5 mm. 



SYNONYMY 



Gallophasis humiae Hume, Stray Feathers, IX. 1880, p. 461 [So. Manipur] ; Hume, Ibis, 1881, p. 608; 

 Godwin-Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 715 [N.E. Manipur]; Hume, Stray Feathers, XI. 1888, p. 302; Grant, 

 Iland-booli Game-birds, II. 1897, P- 4^ ; Gates, Ibis, 1898, pp. 124, 125 ; Finn, Ibis, 1898, pp. 311, 312; Sharpe, 

 Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 38. 



Phasiamis humiae Grant, Cat. Game-birds Brit. Mus., XXII. 1893, p. 335 ; Finn, Ibis, 1898, p. 311 ; Blanford, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Birds, IV. 1898, p. 80 [partim] ; Finn, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, LXIX. 1900, p. 144 [Chin 

 Hills, Burma] ; Bingham, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, LXIX. 1900, p. 137; Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXI. 

 1907, pp. 23, 24 ; Finn, Game-birds India and Asia, 191 1, p. 54 [partim]. 



Syrmaticus humiae Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 15, 1914, p. 283. 



Phasianus humiae humiae Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXV. 191 8, p. 348. 



